A person using a machine to aerate a lush green lawn, creating small holes in the soil to promote healthy grass growth.
A person using a machine to aerate a lush green lawn, creating small holes in the soil to promote healthy grass growth.

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What do lawn aeration services include?

Lawn aeration services include all the necessary tasks to improve air and water circulation. These tasks can involve removing thatch buildup and loosening compacted soil. Some Taskers can do a partial clean-up or lawn clearing before the actual aeration process. As aeration is part of lawn care, other tasks can include mowing the lawn before aeration and composting afterward.

 

Lawn assessment

Your hired Tasker can inspect your lawn and determine its moisture levels. Knowing how moist or dry your lawn is can help your Tasker decide if extra watering is necessary. They can also measure the lawn and determine which tools are appropriate for the job. Your Tasker can use a manual aerator for smaller lawns or a powered aerator for large ones.    

 

Lawn preparation

Some Taskers can mow your lawn beforehand, but this can cost extra. If your lawn covers a large area and the grass is seriously overgrown, you may hire a separate lawn mowing service for this preparation step. 

 

Your Tasker can also water your lawn for one to two days when appropriate, depending on the degree of soil compaction. They can water your lawn until it absorbs the equivalent of an inch of rainfall. This process can make the soil moist enough, so it’s easier for the aerator to penetrate and pull out soil plugs. Your Tasker can also place flags to mark irrigation heads or other objects to avoid while using the aerator.

 

Lawn aeration

When your lawn is ready, your Tasker can proceed with the lawn aeration process. In some cases, the Tasker can take a whole day to work on the entire lawn for the best and consistent results. The specialist may move the aerator following a pattern that covers the whole lawn once. However, it’s not uncommon to go over sparse spots twice. After your Tasker has covered the entire lawn, they will leave the soil cores and move on to the next step.

 

Fertilizing the lawn

The Tasker may recommend either raking the soil cores and dumping them into a compost pile or leaving them to decompose and supply additional nutrients to your grass. Your Tasker can explain the benefits of either measure, and you can decide what to do from there. After you’ve agreed on the fate of the soil cores, your Tasker can go ahead with fertilizing your lawn. They can apply fertilizer, compost, sand, peat moss, or any combination of these to fill the holes and rejuvenate your lawn. Once your lawn is on track to looking terrific again, you can consider booking other lawn maintenance services on Airtasker! 

 

Recent Lawn Aeration tasks in Inner South Melbourne

Lawn aerating on nature strip

$100

Malvern East VIC, Australia

7th Oct 2024

Nature strip needs aerating Type of gardening: Other Size of garden: 150m²-300m² Has green waste bin: Yes

Lawn Coring/Aerating

$200

Caulfield South VIC, Australia

29th Aug 2024

I have c120sqm of rectangular buffalo lawn that I want cored so I can top dress. Must have corer to extract plugs. Type of gardening: Other Size of garden: 50m²-100m² Has green waste bin: Yes

Lawn aerated

$120

Caulfield North VIC, Australia

3rd Mar 2024

Front and back lawn needs aerating with machine operated lawn corer. Must have own machine Type of gardening: Other Size of garden: 150m²-300m² Has green waste bin: Yes

Aerate and topdress lawn

$300

Hampton East VIC, Australia

10th Oct 2023

Looking for some assistance from a lawn care professional to aerate, lightly topdress and level 30 square meters of compacted lawn please. Note, only the areas shown in the photos are damaged rest of the lawn is in good condition. Many thanks for your assistance. Price includes all tools and labor and supply of quality topdress. Any questions please feel free to ask. Thank you! - Due date: Before Friday, 13 October 2023

Aerate my lawn

$50

Gardenvale VIC, Australia

1st Oct 2023

Need to find someone to aerate my lawn. And maybe also provide some advice on improving the condition of the lawn Type of gardening: Other Size of garden: Under 50m² Has green waste bin: Yes - Due date: Flexible

Attend to Lawn. Aerate, Fertilise ext

$250

Caulfield South VIC, Australia

11th Apr 2023

Keen to have my lawn attended to over autumn as I hear it should be done. Aerating Fertilising Mowing Ext. keen for someone with extreme expertise to come and assist.

Exceptional service and guy. Will use again

Lawn aeration

$150

Darling VIC 3145, Australia

12th Mar 2023

i would like to aerate my lawn with a coring machine, approx 150sqm - Due date: Flexible

aerate my lawn when you can

$100

Bentleigh VIC, Australia

13th Jan 2023

I need my lawn aerated with plug holes Type of gardening: Other Size of garden: 50m²-100m² Has green waste bin: Yes - Due date: Flexible

Lawn aeration

$350

Malvern East VIC, Australia

10th Dec 2022

I need someone to aerate my front lawn area and rejuvenate my soil under my lawn - Due date: Flexible

Scarify and aerate lawn

$200

Bentleigh VIC 3204, Australia

23rd Sep 2022

Front yard only, medium size yard, buffalo lawn

Aerate Lawn

$150

Carnegie VIC, Australia

16th Sep 2022

Need approximately 135m2 of lawn aerated/spiked in early October - Due date: Flexible

Lawn coring / aeration

$100

Braeside VIC 3195, Australia

1st Sep 2022

backyard lawn coring / aeration. Type of gardening: Other Size of garden: 50m²-100m² Has green waste bin: Yes - Due date: Flexible

Lawn core aeration

$100

Braeside VIC 3195, Australia

24th Mar 2022

Lawn coring required for 120m2 backyard. Core can clean up cores afterwards. - Due date: Flexible

Dethatching, aeration, top dressing lawn

$100

Sandringham VIC 3191, Australia

5th Dec 2021

Dethatching, aeration, topdressing. Approx 50sqm - Due date: Flexible

I need lawn aeration

$75

Bonbeach VIC, Australia

30th Mar 2021

Dethatching to help with controlling toadstools in lawn

Aerate Soil with spiked roller and spray

$60

Moorabbin VIC 3189, Australia

1st Mar 2021

Aerate Soil with spiked roller and spray with wetting agent

Aerate front and back lawns

$100

Bentleigh VIC 3204, Australia

24th Feb 2021

I need my lawns aerated front and back. There's been a bit of damage due to the landlord 'fixing' things.